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In this paper, we present some recent improvements in our automatic speech segmentation system, which only needs the speech signal and the phonetic sequence of each sentence of a corpus to be trained. It estimates a GMM by using all the sentences of the training subcorpus, where each Gaussian distribution represents an acoustic class, which probability densities are combined with a set of conditional probabilities in order to estimate the probability densities of the states of each phonetic unit. The initial values of the conditional probabilities are obtained by using a segmentation of each sentence assigning the same number of frames to each phonetic unit. A DTW algorithm fixes the phonetic boundaries using the known phonetic sequence. This DTW is a step inside an iterative process which aims to segment the corpus and re-estimate the conditional probabilities. The results presented here demonstrate that the system has a good capacity to learn how to identify the phonetic boundaries.
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Gómez, J.A., Calvo, M. (2011). Improvements on Automatic Speech Segmentation at the Phonetic Level. In: San Martin, C., Kim, SW. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25085-9_66
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